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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Geolocation applications allow you to share your location with other people and associate that location to restaurants, events, and other real-world venues. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago. I saw you checked in on Foursquare as I just did.” I’m Ari.

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Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

Path, available for iOS and Android devices, also integrates with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Tumblr to allow cross-posting to the social networks. This feature might ruffle some privacy feathers. The upper limit has been raised to 150, but most user have, on average, five to 10 connections. It’s very easy to use.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

But there are privacy and data ownership issues.”. With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. Luckily, this data integration feature has now been disabled by Foursquare. They want to document the world around them. How do you understand it? It’s messy data.

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Memolane – A Social Media Trip Down Memory Lane

Mindjumpers

At Memolane, it is possible to create a timeline with all your information from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, YouTube and other platforms you’re present on, so you can go through old photos, tweets, check-ins, updates etc. In the bottom of the screen, you use the timeline to step back in time and relive various events etc.

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I Don't Care Where. You. Are. Right. Now. | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

If I wanted to know these things, we’d be connected on Foursquare so I could follow along as you cruise through town going to meetings and running errands. For each stop in your day, you check-in with Foursquare , Gowalla , Brightkite , Loopt , Whrrl and others. Still, it is your choice.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

It means giving up one’s privacy. Facebook in particular is notorious for privacy issues. Still, as Jennifer Kane noted at the recent OMS Minneapolis event , correlations between social media activities and sales can be measured—and correlations are good data. Not an unreasonable concern. The solution? The solution?

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This Week in Social Media – 6/5/2013

Social Media Marketing

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs.